Protease activity, secretion, cell entry, cytotoxicity, and cellular targets of secreted autotransporter toxin of uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 6124-6134

  Maroncle, Nathalie M ^a   Sivick, Kelsey E ^a   Brady, Rebecca ^b   Stokes, Faye Ellen ^c   Mobley, Harry L T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Society for General Microbiology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; FODRIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; LIM DOMAIN ONLY PROTEIN 7; LIM PROTEIN; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 1; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN SPATE; PROTEINASE; RAP GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN 1; SECRETED AUTOTRANSPORTER TOXIN; SERINE; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CATALYSIS; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTERNALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TARGETING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; URINARY BLADDER; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 33750475609     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01086-06     Document Type: Article

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